“Nothing definitely new in the world can be invented; those what seem special, in fact, always come from something precedes them.” This comment on his contemporaries by the Hungarian musician, Béla Bartók, pretty much elaborates his own art of composing and the contexts of his creation. He delved into traditions. His works are influenced by the neo-classicism but also contain exploration of dissonance as well. With Zoltán Kodály, Bartók had collected folk music in Hungary and the surrounding areas, and sort it out into his music vocabularies, creating something new out of the old materials and skills. Béla Bartók will be introduced in the concert through his works of chamber music for the audience to know the master who specialized in performing, composing, teaching, and researching, and listen to his extraordinary art and life of a musician and an ethnomusicologist.


Title Sponsor: Chen-Yung Foundation